Final Review
CP US II
January 6, 2012
The first set of serious disagreements between the U.S. and
the Soviet Union after WWII was over
a. Latin America b. Eastern Europe c. Asia
During the Korean War, South Korea appeared to be winning
until this country entered the war:
a. China
b. Italy
c. Great Britain
“Blacklisting” in the film industry was the work of which
group:
a. SNCC
b. CORE
c. HUAC
Truman was often criticized for his lack of:
a. Foreign policy skills b. experience c. knowledge
January 9, 2012
1.HUAC became well-known for investigating communism in the:
a. film industry
b.US military
c.US government
2.The technique of making unsupported charges of communism without
evidence was named after:
a. Alger Hiss
b.Joe McCarthy
c.Harry Truman
3.This person led the nation that exploded the first atomic bomb:
a. Fidel Castro
b.Harry Truman
c.Nikita Khrushchev
4.The plan to rebuild Europe after WWII was called:
a. Marshall Plan
b.Khrushchev Plan
c.Truman Doctrine
5.The Eisenhower Doctrine was a warming to the Soviet Union against
military intervention in:
a. Latin America
b.Eastern Europe
c.the Middle East
January 11, 2012
When the Soviet Union exploded an atomic bomb the US:
a. formed NATO
b. intensified efforts to make the hydrogen
bomb
c. launched a space satellite
Richard Nixon’s “Checkers speech” was conveyed on:
a. television
b. radio
c. fireside chats
A major industry that includes a number of smaller, unrelated
companies:
a. Franchise
b. trust
c. conglomerate
In 1956, Eisenhower signed the ___________ to authorize new
highways and expressways to be built
a. Interstate Highway Act
b. Intrastate Highway Act
c. National Roads Act
Which group left the cities for the suburbs in the 1950’s by the millions?
a. middle-class whites b. sharecroppers
c.lower-class whites
January 13, 2012
The strategy to encourage consumers to buy more and more goods
is known as:
a.planned obsolescence
b.planned parenthood
c.planned consumerism:
When 4.5 million workers went on strike Truman responded by:
a.sending federal troops b.threatening to draft workers as soldiers
c. calling his mom for advice
Which form of media grew the fastest after WWII?
a.radio
b.internet
c.television
In the 1950’s women were viewed as:
a.Politicians b.home-makers and mothers c.industrial workers
Dr. Jonas Salk developed the vaccine for:
a.polio
b.rabies
c.tuberculosis
January 17, 2012
1. Many people criticized the suburbs for:
a. encouraging communism
b. hurting the education of children
c. encouraging conformity and discouraging individuality
2. Which of these best contributed to the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis:
a. America’s secret promise to remove missiles from Turkey
b. Castro’s promise for democracy
c. Russia’s determination to win the space race
3. President Kennedy supported the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba to:
a. support Castro
b. remove a communist from power
c. place an embargo on Cuba
4. Medicare was intended to provide ____________ for
individuals 65 and older
a. healthcare
b. housing
c. education
January 18, 2012
1.The main reason the Berlin Wall was created was to:
a. embarrass America b. stop people from fleeing to West Berlin
c. ease Cold War tensions
2.The main purpose of JFK’s flexible response program was:
a. to enable the US to fight limited wars around the world
b. to decrease the number of nuclear weapons
c. to reduce defense spending
3.America reacted to the Soviets putting the first man in space with:
a. indifference
b. threats of military action
c. determination to not lose the space race
4.This court case said all suspects must be read their rights:
a. Baker v. Carr b. Miranda v. Arizona c. Brown v. Board of Ed
5.This group stated JFK’s assassination was not part of a conspiracy:
a. FBI
b. Warren Commission
c. CIA
January 19, 2012
The Peace Corps program started by JFK offered assistance to:
a. Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Korea
b. Latin America, Africa, Asia
c. Finland, Sweden, Denmark
2. This court case said “separate but equal” WAS constitutional:
a. Plessy v. Ferguson b. Brown v. Board of Ed c. Morgan v. VA
3. Brown v. Board of Ed declared this unconstitutional:
a. sit-ns
b. schools
c. segregation
4. This person was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white
man:
a. Robert Moses
b. Rosa Parks c. Thurgood Marshall
5. Who delivered the “I Have a Dream” speech?
a. James Meredith b. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
c. Fannie Lou Hamer
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January 20, 2012
The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was passed during his presidency:
a. John F. Kennedy b. Lyndon B. Johnson c. Richard Nixon
2. This eliminated the literacy tests denying people the right to vote:
a. Civil Rights Act of 1964 b. Employment Act of 1968
c. Voting Rights Act of 1965
3. De facto segregation results from:
a. habit and tradition
b. law
c. random choice
4. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 banned discrimination in:
a. Housing
b. the military
c. schools
5. This president resigned after the Watergate scandal:
a. Gerald Ford
b. Richard Nixon
c. Jimmy Carter
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January 23, 2012
1. Which president adopted the policy of Vietnamization?
a. Lyndon Johnson
b. Richard Nixon
c. John F. Kennedy
2. Which administration’s efforts to mislead the American people were
revealed by the Pentagon Papers?
a. John F. Kennedy
b. Lyndon Johnson
c. Richard Nixon
3. Who was commander of the US troops in Vietnam?
a. Clark Clifford
b. William Westmoreland
c. Dean Rusk
4. A supporter of peace and against the Vietnam War was known as a:
a. dove
b. hawk
c. pigeon
5. This event set off the first general student strike in the US history:
a. assassination of JFK
b. riots at the Democratic Convention
c. invasion of Cambodia
January 24, 2012
In the 1940’s, which countries troops occupied Vietnam at one point?
a. China and the Soviet Union
b. France and Japan
c. the US and France
2. The main purpose of the War Powers Act was to:
a. Restrict the power of the president
b. Expand the power of the president
c. Restrict the power of the military
3. In which country did the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem create
change?
a. North Vietnam
b. Laos
c. South Vietnam
4. Due to the images on the evening news, the Vietnam War became
known as:
a. the Television War
b. the Media War
c. the Magazine War
January 25, 2012
Which of the following, as secretary of defense, supported a
build-up of US forces in Vietnam?
a. Clark Clifford
b. William Westmoreland
c. Henry Kissinger
2. In the 1970’s, La Raza Unida focused its efforts on:
a. Electing Latinos to office b. educational reform
c. Reclaiming land taken form Mexico
3. This movement was made up of mostly white middle-class college
youths who were against the war and other injustices:
a. Contras b. counterculture
c. counterinsurgency
4. She was a conservative that was strongly against the ERA:
a. Frances Perkins b. Gloria Steinem
c. Phyllis Schlafly
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